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What is psychology?
uses science to try and understand why people behave the way they do. Both abnormally and normally.
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What is psychology the science of?
Mind and behavior
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What are the three levels of analysis?
- 1) Brain
- 2) Person
- 3) Group
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What is level of brain?
activity and structure of the organ
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What is the level of person?
contents and functions of the mind. Mental contents and mental processes.
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What is the level of the group?
collection of people affect behavior.
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What is the root of psychology?
philosophy and physiology
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Who was scientist Descartes?
mind and body
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Who was scientist Locke?
experience of the world
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What did early scientific psychologist?
not interests in behavior, interested in how information is interpreted
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What is first school of thought?
Structuralism
- Wundt (building blocks of consciousness)
Sensations (Organs) and Feelings (Anger, happiness, etc. )
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What is introspection? What school of thought?
Looking from withing during or shortly after the behavior. Structuralism.
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What is functionalism?
why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do. Influence by Darwinism.
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Gestalt Psychology?
- OVERALL perception
- WHOLE is more than sum of its parts
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Psycho-dynamic Theory?
FREUD
some components of the mind are unconscious. How conscious and unconscious thoughts affect behavior
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Behaviorism?
- stimulance / response
- -against unseen phenomena
*REINFORCEMENT
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Humanistic Psychology?
- POTENTIAL
- Maslow
- Positive values, free will, deep inner creativity, personal growth, fulfilling lives.
Rogers - Client Centered Therapy
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Positive Technology?
Strengths and virtues enable a person to thrive
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Cognitive?
- Computer approach (Human info processing)
- - Negative thoughts cause depression
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Cognitive neuroscience?
Cognitive psychology with brain physiology
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Evolutionary Psychology?
- Compare humans to animal traits.
- Certain cognitive strategies are built into brain because of natural selection
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Clinical psychologists?
- psych therapy
- administer tests
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Psych therapy?
help people learn to change
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Counseling psychologists?
help people deal with everyday life
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Academic Psychologist?
teaching and research
- Cognitive- thinking, memory
- Social- group function
- Personality- individual diff in preference and inclination
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Applied Psychologist?
use findings to improve products and procedures
- -Develop: design products
- - Physiological: studies brain and help company brain things
- - Social: group of people like JURY
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Personality: design new tests
Industrial / Organizational: work environment
Sport- improve athletic performance
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